Troides plato, the silver birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Timor.

Silver birdwing
Male, upperside
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Troides
Species:
T. plato
Binomial name
Troides plato
Wallace, 1865

Described forms are nychonia Jordan, 1908 (male), chitonia Jordan, 1908 (male), and delormei Le Moult, 1931 (female).

Taxonomy

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Previously considered to be a subspecies of haliphron, plato was raised to a full species by Haugum and Low on the basis of differences in the genitalia.

Biogeographic realm

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Australasian realm.

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Troides plato is a member of the Troides haliphron species group. The members of this clade are:

References

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  1. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
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